Il nome Lealisti dell'Impero Unito (in inglese: United Empire Loyalists) è un nome onorifico concesso ai lealisti americani che si trasferirono nel Nord America Britannico e nelle altre Colonie britanniche, come atto di fedeltà a Giorgio III, a seguito della sconfitta britannica nella guerra d'indipendenza americana.
Lista degli attuali insediamenti lealisti in Canada
Il nome utilizzato nel XVIII secolo è segnato precedentemente a quello corrente.
Antigonish Belleville Buell's Bay → Brockville, Ontario Butlersbury → Newark → Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario Cataraqui → Kingston Clifton → Niagara Falls Cornwall, Ontario Eastern Townships, Quebec Effingham, Ontario Grimsby, Ontario Merrittsville → Welland, Ontario Port Roseway → Shelburne, Nova Scotia Prince Edward County, Ontario Saint John, New Brunswick Six Nations and Brantford St. Andrews-by-the-Sea → St. Andrews, New Brunswick St. Anne's Point → Fredericton The Twelve → Shipman's Corners → St. Catharines, Ontario York → Toronto
Note
Bibliografia Christopher Moore; The Loyalists: Revolution, Exile, Settlement; 1984, ISBN 0-7710-6093-9. W. Stewart Wallace; The United Empire Loyalists: A Chronicle of the Great Migration; Volume 13 of the "Chronicles of Canada (32 volumes); 1914, Toronto. "The Book of Negroes" Lawrence Hill, Harper Collins Publishers Ltd. 2007, 486 pages.
Voci correlate Lealisti (rivoluzione americana)
Altri progetti
Collegamenti esterni The United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada - fraternal association for descendants of Loyalists
E-text of Wallace's Chronicle at Project Gutenberg
"The Myth of the Loyalist Iroquois", argues that it is misleading to describe Joseph Brant and other Iroquois leaders as "Loyalists"
Haldimand Collection A major source of information regarding the installation of more than 50 thousand American Loyalists in Canada: Cataraqui, Quebec, Sorel, Nova-Scotia, New-Brunswick Benjamin Franklin to Baron Francis Maseres, June 26, 1785 (Opinion of Benjamin Franklin on persons who called themselves "Loyalists", whom he judged better called "Royalists")
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